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Unit: Health Sciences
Student Wellness Ambassador Team launches initiative to combat COVID-19
The Student Wellness Ambassador Team (SWAT), a Health Promotion and Wellness sponsored student organization, has advocated for the health of Illinois State students for over 25 years. Typically, the group’s efforts promote healthy habits such as practicing safe alcohol use, living an active lifestyle, positive sexual health behaviors, and practicing mindfulness. But this school year, the team faces its biggest health promotion obstacle yet—the global pandemic.
‘We have all had to adapt in different ways’: An environmental health alumna’s work in the time of coronavirus
As environmental, health, and safety manager for Caterpillar in Mapleton, Kelsey Fiddes ’12 has played a large role in helping her company navigate the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Flexibility is key for an environmental health alum during the COVID-19 pandemic
Garrett Steiner ’16 is a commissioned officer in the US Public Health Service and is currently assigned to the Indian Health Service in northern Wisconsin.
Environmental health interns work on COVID-19
Two environmental health students, Isabella Anderson and Kellsie Freeman, are currently working on their internship projects at the Will County Health Department.
‘It has essentially become my full-time job’: One alum’s work during the COVID-19 pandemic
Cathy Ferguson-Allen ’91 was always interested in health and wellness. Initially interested in teaching physical education, she shifted gears upon arrival at Illinois State University.
Community health promotion alum contributes to COVID-19 community efforts
Sidney Saylor ’20 was recently activated in the Illinois Army National Guard, working as a medic in the fight against COVID-19.
Redbird legacy: Like father, like son
Illinois State freshman Jalen Love learned early on the value of going to college and pursuing a degree. His parents, Larry and Betty Love, were both first-generation college students who found a home at the University.
Two years after graduating, Health Sciences alumna protects her community from coronavirus
Less than two years after graduating, an Illinois State Health Sciences alumna has found herself on the frontlines of the response to coronavirus (COVID-19).
ISU Health Sciences alum puts degree to work in fight against coronavirus
In her epidemiology class, Taylor Lehman ’19 watched Contagion. The 2011 film tells the story of how a deadly virus transmitted by respiratory droplets brings society to its knees while scientists rush to create a vaccine.
Lehman wasn’t worried.
